SEATTLE (AP) — for the Seattle Mariners and moving into a new role as a hitting adviser
for the entire organization
http://www.metsfanproshop.com/authentic-jose-reyes-jersey , the club announced Tuesday.Martinez said the move is largely based around his
desire to spend more time with family, but with the help of the Mariners he was
able to create a role that gives him the flexibility he seeks while still
keeping him connected with the major league team and the organization.“Coaching
goes into long hours and the travel and with the situation with my family at
this point, I thought if I could have an ideal situation where I could spend
some time with the MLB team and be part of it and help and expand in other
roles, but also be home more with the family, that was what I was
thinking
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considered seeking a role like this after the 2017 season but opted to stick
around for one more year as the hitting coach before broaching the idea with
management.“We have spent the past three weeks working with Edgar to design a
new position that will allow us to take advantage of his knowledge, passion and
teaching skill at both the major and minor league levels, while allowing Edgar
flexibility that is unavailable in his current role,” Dipoto said in a
statement.The decision leaves Seattle needing to fill two key positions on its
coaching staff after manager Scott Servais opted not to bring back pitching
coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. Martinez just completed his third full season as
Seattle’s hitting coach, and was the one holdover on the coaching staff after
Servais arrived in 2016.Martinez was hired by then-manager Lloyd McClendon
midway through the 2015 season after Howard Johnson was reassigned in the
organization.The move was initially met with skepticism and was viewed as an
attempt by a struggling team to garner goodwill by hiring one of the best
players in franchise history. But Martinez was able to transfer some of the
hitting skills and knowledge from his standout playing career to the current
crop of players.Martinez played with the Mariners for 18 years until retiring in
2004. He is entering his final year of eligibility for the Hall of Fame and last
year fell just short of getting the votes needed to make him one of just two
inducted players who were primarily designated hitters.Martinez said he’s
looking forward to working with both the major leaguers and younger hitters in
the organization.“I always had the question of how it would be to go back and
coach. I’m very happy that I got the opportunity to do it
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glad I tried it and the time I spent with the guys and the coaches, it was a lot
of fun.” SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners say they fired high-performance
director Lorena Martin this season in part because she created a hostile work
environment and ignored recommended treatments for injured players issued by
team doctors.The Mariners’ claims were revealed in a filing in King County
Superior Court in response to Martin’s lawsuit against the team filed earlier
this month. The club’s response was an eight-page, weeks-old letter originally
filed in an attempt to have her situation settled in private arbitration, but it
became public after it was attached to a motion filed by Martin’s attorney.The
Mariners say unnamed employees had warned general manager Jerry Dipoto last
March that Martin was ignoring medical advice on treatment of injured players
and that she was misrepresenting herself “as a medical doctor to other MLB
teams’ staff.”The team also said it had received “overwhelming and accumulating”
employee complaints about Martin.Martin’s wrongful-termination lawsuit claimed
she went to team owners John Stanton and Buck Ferguson and CEO Kevin Mather as
far back as March to complain about alleged discriminatory treatment.The lawsuit
also says several Latino players complained to Martin about feeling excluded and
that Dipoto took midseason steps to deliberately undermine the progress and
mental state of star pitcher Felix Hernandez.The Mariners have denied all of
Martin’s claims.“Martin’s allegations of discrimination are not true,” the
Mariners’ letter states. “No indication
http://www.metsfanproshop.com/authentic-jose-reyes-jersey , much less evidence, of such was identified during the course of the independent
investigation which involved personal interviews of approximately 20 individuals
who were in position to know.”
